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MIDDLE EAST] LABORDE, LEON DE. Voyage de l'Arabie Petree par ... Paris: Giard, 1830. First edition. Period half morocco gilt, marbled sides. 23 x 16 1/2 inches (59 x 42 cm); [4] ff. (including half-title, title, dedication and preface) 87, [1] pp., with [1] ff. plate list at rear; the title page with a fine vignette illustration (on India paper), and with 68 plates (most on India paper) and a large folding map. The lithography is mostly by Adam for Engelmann, after drawings by Laborde. Two of the plates (the Oueber and the Red Sea shells) are hand-colored (normally, only one plate is found thus). Some wear to the binding, which has been carefully restored; within, sporadic foxing, mostly faiirly mild and largely marginal. With the bookplate of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Laborde's illustrations were, before the publication of Roberts' views, the only published visual representations of Petra available to western scholars. Laborde and his travelling companion Louis 'Linant Pasha' de Bellefonds set off for Petra from Cairo via Mt. Sinai dressed as Bedouins. Blackmer 929; Brunet III, 714; Nissen ZBI 2335; Vicaire IV, 758-9. C